Slate Lays Off Jack Shafer, Several Others — Slate, the online news magazine owned by the Washington Post Company, has laid off a number of employees, including editor-at-large Jack Shafer, Adweek has learned. — “We have made some editorial changes, including a small reduction in our full …

EXCLUSIVE: Media Pioneer Jim Romenesko To ‘Semi-Retire’ — NEW YORK — When Jim Romenesko attended an annual Poynter Institute board meeting in 2002, a few years after bringing his pioneering brand of media blogging and aggregation to the journalism school's site, some of the country's top editors complained …

The Romenesko Revolution — He has had an enormous impact on media coverage. Wed. August 24, 2011 — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — Life without Romenesko. It's impossible to contemplate. — Luckily we won't have to.

CNN Correspondents Describes Being Held Hostage In Libya — NEW YORK — For the past six days, CNN's Matthew Chance feared that he and roughly 35 journalists trapped by Gaddafi loyalists in Tripoli's Rixos hotel might be somehow used as part of the crumbling regime's endgame — or even executed.

Nostalgia is not a viable approach to journalism (part 267) — Yesterday, a rather depressing story about journalism training appeared on the Press Gazette site. It wasn't depressing because of the headline finding: … As Joanna Geary pointed out in the comments, that has a definite “Pope revealed to be Catholic” element.

Why Hyperlocal News Is Better Than Ever — Hyperlocal news is on the threshold of a period of impressive achievement. I'm not talking about revisiting the wishful thinking of the previous decade, when we were regaled with dithyrambics about “grassroots” and “citizen” journalism.

Interview: Anthony Shadid — Anthony Shadid is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Over his fifteeen year career he has won numerous awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, for his coverage across the Middle East. Shadid's fluency in Arabic and his deep understanding of the region …

YouTube Refuses “The Godfather” After All — If you've never seen “The Godfather,” you really ought to rethink your priorities. It's as great as everyone says it is. And it features Al Pacino from a long time ago, before Al Pacino pretty much played Al Pacino caricatures. And Marlon Brando!

BBC foreign editor defends Libya coverage — News chief admits corporation was scooped by Sky's Alex Crawford in race to Tripoli, but says ‘war is not a competition’ — Jon Williams, the BBC's foreign editor, has defended the corporation's coverage of the battle for Tripoli after it was beaten …

For Murdoch, media has often been about friends and influence — In 1996, the teenage son of a prominent political figure in Washington, D.C., got suspended from his tony prep school. — Not wanting to see himself, his family or his boss embarrassed by his son's actions, the father scrambled to keep the incident out of the news.

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